Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Bessa-T - let me get this straight...
From: "Michael E. Bérubé" <MEB@goodphotos.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:31:58 -0500
References: <9DC5E2ABE65BD54CA9088DA3194461D604A99A66@BBY1EXM01> <3.0.6.32.20010316121553.007cade0@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> <3.0.6.32.20010316140622.00a042f0@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com>

The could stamp "WALMART MAYLAYSIA since 2001" on their gear and I'd buy it 
if it helped me produce the images I want to produce at an equipment cost 
that I can reasonably afford.

A rose is a rose, etc...

Carpe Luminem,
Michael E. Bérubé

At 12:41 PM 3/16/01 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>Marc James Small wrote:
> >
> > At 10:17 AM 3/16/2001 -0800, Ted Grant wrote:
> > >>>>>There IS, of course, the intellectually dishonest Cosina management
> > >> and, I suppose, a Cosina board room.<<<<
> > >
> > >I wondered why you made this comment? Not a chain pull, but an honest
> > >question as I really don't understand.
> >
> > If Cosina had one ounce of honesty, they would list their goods as being
> > made by Cosina and not by "Voigtländer".  The products are NOT made by
> > Voigtländer, a defunct German company.  They are made by Cosina.  Why is
> > Cosina so afeared of using their own name on their own products?
> ><Snip>
>
>I just really bugs me when they go "Voigtländer Germany" on the Cosina stuff.
>A name is great and it's great to be able to buy it perhaps. I'll sell you my
>title if you want
>but this is just DECEPTION.
>And there are stronger words for deception one could use if ones blood was up.
>(Which mine ain't)
>Fraud?
>"One that defrauds; a cheat. B. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.
>[Middle English fraude, from Old French, from Latin fraus, fraud-.]"
>A piece of trickery; a trick.
>Yes!! a benign piece of happy trickery.
>Trick or treat!?
>
>Mark Rabiner
>
>Portland, Oregon
>USA
>http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/

In reply to: Message from Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com> (RE: [Leica] Re: Bessa-T - let me get this straight...)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Bessa-T - let me get this straight...)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Bessa-T - let me get this straight...)